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Information about January 10


January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are


355 days remaining (356 in leap years).


Events


   * 49 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon River which signaled civil


     war.


   * 1072 - Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo


   * 1776 - Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense


   * 1806 - Dutch in Cape Town surrender to the British


   * 1810 - Marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled


   * 1861 - Florida secedes from the United States


   * 1863 - The first section of the London Underground Railway opens


     (Paddington to Farringdon Street).


   * 1870 - John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil


   * 1901 - The first great Texas gusher, oil discovered at Spindletop in


     Beaumont, Texas


   * 1911 - Major Jimmie Erickson takes the first aerial photograph (over


     San Diego, California).


   * 1920 - League of Nations holds its first meeting and ratifies the


     Treaty of Versailles ending World War I.


   * 1922 - Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State


   * 1923 - Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel


   * 1927 - The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premiers.


   * 1928 - USSR expels Leo Tolstoy


   * 1941 - Lend-Lease is introduced into the United States Congress


   * 1946 - First General Assembly of the United Nations


   * 1957 - Harold Macmillan becomes the prime minister of the United


     Kingdom.


   * 1969 - After 147 years, the last issue of the Saturday Evening Post is


     published.


   * 1971 - Masterpiece Theatre debuts on PBS


   * 1984 - The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic


     relations.


   * 1989 - Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola


   * 1990 - Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner


     Communications Inc.


   * 1994 - Lorena Bobbitt goes on trial for severing the penis of her


     husband John (Manassas, Virginia).


   * 2000 - America On-line announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for


     $162 billion. This is the largest-ever corporate merger.


Births


   * 1769 - Michel Ney, a marshal of the French army


   * 1843 - Frank James, outlaw (+ 1915)


   * 1858 - Heinrich Zille, illustrator and photographer (+ 1929)


   * 1883 - Francis X. Bushman, actor (+ 1966)


   * 1883 - Aleksei Tolstoy, writer (+ 1945)


   * 1899 - Axel Eggelbrecht, journalist (+ 1991)


   * 1904 - Ray Bolger, actor, singer, dancer (+ 1987)


   * 1917 - Hilde Krahl, actress (+ 1999)


   * 1917 - Jerry Wexler, record producer


   * 1923 - Ingeborg Drewitz, writer (+ 1986)


   * 1925 - Max Roach, drummer, composer


   * 1927 - Gisele MacKenzie, singer


   * 1927 - Johnnie Ray, singer (+ 1990)


   * 1927 - Otto Stich, Swiss politician


   * 1930 - Roy Edward Disney, film executive


   * 1931 - Viktor Liebermann, violinist (+ 1999)


   * 1936 - Stephen Ambrose, historian (+ 2002)


   * 1936 - Robert Wilson, physicist, radio astronomer


   * 1938 - Donald Knuth, mathematician, computer scientist


   * 1938 - Willie McCovey, Baseball Hall of Famer


   * 1939 - Bill Toomey, track and field athlete


   * 1939 - Sal Mineo, actor (+ 1976)


   * 1943 - Jim Croce, singer (+ 1973)


   * 1945 - Rod Stewart, singer


   * 1948 - Donald Fagen, keyboardist


   * 1949 - George Foreman, boxer


   * 1949 - James Lapine, stage director


   * 1949 - Linda Lovelace, pornographic film actress (+ 2002)


   * 1953 - Pat Benatar, singer


   * 1953 - Bobby Rahal, automobile racer


   * 1955 - Michael Schenker, guitar player of UFO and solo career


   * 1956 - Shawn Colvin, singer


   * 1976 - Emma Bunton, singer


Deaths


   * 681 - Pope Agatho


   * 1778 - Carolus Linnaeus, botanist


   * 1862 - Samuel Colt, inventor


   * 1917 - William F. Cody, frontiersman


   * 1941 - Joe Penner, comedian, actor


   * 1951 - Sinclair Lewis, writer


   * 1961 - Dashiell Hammett, writer


   * 1970 - Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut


   * 1971 - Coco Chanel, fashion designer


   * 1971 - Gabrielle Chanel, perfumer


   * 1976 - Howlin' Wolf, musician


   * 1980 - George Meany, labor leader


   * 1981 - Richard Boone, actor


   * 1997 - Sheldon Leonard, producer, actor, director


   * 2000 - Sam Jaffe, actor

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